Public Health

Forget His Fancy Lotion and Chick-Fil-A, Pruitt's Gutting of EPA Rule Threatens Drinking Water of 117 Million Americans

Calling Gun Violence a Public Health Epidemic, Nation's Doctors Call for Assault Weapons Ban

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Did we mute our opposition to smoking, because Big Tobacco defended it? No, we let the science lead us...The AMA must not back down from addressing gun violence."

Catering to Chemical Industry Demands, EPA Threatens Nation's Air and Water With 'Shameful' Curbing of Toxic Safety Rules

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Scott Pruitt isn't just the most corrupt EPA Administrator in history. His...

In Typical 'Police State' Response, Cops Show Up With Guns Drawn After Friends Worried Chelsea Manning Was Near Suicide

Julia Conley, staff writer

"If Chelsea had been home when these cops arrived with guns drawn, she would be...

'No Such Thing as Cheap Meat': Global Index Shows Industry Failure to Combat Climate Crisis, Antibiotic Resistance

'Dark and Disturbing' DOJ Report Shows Big Pharma Knew of Opioid Abuse After Releasing Popular Painkiller

Climate Change Could Supercharge Threat of Antibiotic Resistance: Study

'History Going in the Wrong Direction' as Worst Form of Black Lung Disease Rises Again

As Landmark Glyphosate Case Moves to Trial, Man Dying of Cancer to Have Day in Court With Monsanto

As DRC Ebola Outbreak Reaches City, Trump's Slashing of Global Health Funds Decried as 'Crazily Short-Sighted'

New Study Raises Alarm About Exposure to Glyphosate Pesticides at Levels the EPA Claims Are "Safe"

'Win for Science and Democracy' as Court Rules California Can List Glyphosate as Probable Carcinogen

New Study Finds More Than 95% of Global Population Exposed to Harmful Air Pollution

New CDC Report Raises Alarm About Growing Threat of 'Nightmare Bacteria'

In Wake of 'Shameful' Vote by US Senate, New Cholera Warning for Yemen

In Latest Affront, Trump Health Department Scrubs Guidance for Lesbian and Bisexual Women From Website

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Toxic Hot Seat: Your House Is (Still) Full of Poison

Called "horrifying, infuriating, compelling and hopeful," a new documentary Toxic Hot Seat explores the chemical flame retardants - equally likely to cause cancer and not to work - that are everywhere in our lives and houses, and the massive lobbying efforts of chemical manufacturers and Big Tobacco that put them there. With a new Give Toxics the Boot! campaign. "The average American baby is born with 10 fingers, 10 toes and the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the...